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Modi faces challenge from activists over surveillance at India youth protest

Asia-Pacific 2 sources 2 countries 🔦 Under-reported 18m ago

What started as outrage over leaked medical entrance exams turned into one of India's largest youth-led protest movements challenging India's prime minister. They call themselves the cockroaches after a top official compared jobless youth to the pests. Producer Zeba Warsi reports on how India's Gen Z took on one of the world's most powerful leaders.

Uzair Usmani and Naila Khan contributed to the field producing this piece. A court will decide whether police use of facial recognition and surveillance at protests was legal.

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